Fears to Fathom - Carson House
Worth it · Narrative · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $3.49, at or past its typical seasonal cut of 30%. The Autumn Sale runs to Oct 8.
- Length
- 1.6h
- Value
- $2.18/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 30% off today.
Discounted in 5 of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 30% ($3.49)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 50% ($2.49)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti, 2 GB | AMD Radeon R7 360, 2 GB, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
Noah Baker, an 18 year old highschooler experiences unsettling occurrences while house-sitting for a media personality, little did he know what was about to unfold that night.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.49, set in June 2025. It has been discounted 13 times in the 4 years tracked here, typically at 30 percent off, with about 14 weeks between sales. Today's $3.49 at 30 percent off still sits 40 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
This sale is doing real work. 75 at list, 82 today.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. The nearest things to it, Fears to Fathom - Norwood Hitchhike ($2.49, scores 71) and Fears to Fathom - Ironbark Lookout ($5.99, scores 78), are both worse buys on this math.
12 of the 526 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 90 percent of the 1,242 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 45 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
88% start to 21% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
14 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 21:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Fears to Fathom has been sitting in my library unplayed since episode 1, because I've always just found it too overwhelmingly scary. The atmosphere is just uneasy from the very start, like something really, really bad is going to happen. What makes F2F even more terrifying is that the episodes are inspired by realistic scenarios that could actually happen. I'm glad I went back and gave F2F another chance, these...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Fears to Fathom - Carson House scores 82/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2120900/fears-to-fathom-carson-houseReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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